Urban Studies Books

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11. Locating Right to the City in the Global South

    Edited by Tony Samara, Shenjing He, Guo Chen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
12. Politics of Urbanism

    Seeing Like a City

    By Warren Magnusson

    Series: Interventions

    To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
13. Real Estate Economics

    A Point-to-Point Handbook

    By Nicholas Pirounakis

    Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

    Real Estate Economics: A point-to-point handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, development, market dynamics and price bubbles...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
14. Global Cities

    Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

    Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

    A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
15. Cities and Climate Change

    By Harriet Bulkeley

    Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

    Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
16. New Orleans and the Design Moment

    Edited by Jacob Wagner, Michael Frisch

    Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized. Rather than defining the disaster recovery process as simply a matter of rebuilding the existing city, these voices called for a...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
17. Cities and Photography

    By Jane Tormey

    Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

    Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
18. Framing Strategic Urban Projects

    Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

    Edited by Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini

    Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences. Helpfully divided into three sections, Framing...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
19. The Urban Design Reader

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald

    Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series

    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
20. Cities, Citizens, and Technologies

    Urban Life and Postmodernity

    By Paula Geyh

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge